Blame GOP Congress for fiscal cliff mess

Ann Marie Buerkle owes the people of this congressional district an apology after all the problems that are about to be dropped on us.

The last time Congress raised the debt ceiling, instead of pay the country's bill, money she already spent, she helped put forth the bill making the fiscal cliff fiasco possible. Don't say she couldn't possibly be responsible. Yes she is. She and her conservative cronies passed it. Now the time is up, and as of Thursday, she isn't doing anything to stop the carnage that it is about to set in.

House Speaker John Boehner wants the Senate or President Obama to solve it. That is illegal, according to the Constitution. All monetary bills start in the House. Buerkle and her Republican cronies don't want to do what they are supposed to do as representatives, when bills come due. They want to prove a '''point,'' even though they spent the money. If we did that in our private lives, we'd be put in jail.

Now the ''point'' is about to blow a hole in our economic recovery She's not doing anything to stop this disaster. She seemed to be the speaker's best friend in the last two years, so where is she now? The conservatives don't believe in compromise. What kind of way to govern is that?

Our friends and enemies around the world must be laughing out loud. The tea partiers and those other Republicans who are worried about their jobs are destroying the U.S. economy without our enemy's help. You tea partiers have made your point. We middle-class taxpayers will remember what you and your party have done, every time we pay higher taxes and buy $6 gallons of milk.